Incorporating multi-leaf collimator leaf sequencing into iterative IMRT optimization

Medical Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 952-959

  Siebers, Jeffrey V ^a   Lauterbach, Marc ^a   Keall, Paul J ^a   Mohan, Radhe ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dose calculations; IMRT; Optimization

Indexed keywords

OPTIMIZATION; RADIOTHERAPY;

CRITICAL STRUCTURES; DOSE CALCULATION; IMRT; INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; STANDARD OPTIMIZATION;

ITERATIVE METHODS;

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX CANCER; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LUNG CANCER; NASOPHARYNX CANCER; OROPHARYNX CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; SPINE CANCER; TREATMENT PLANNING; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; ALGORITHM; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; RADIATION RESPONSE;

ALGORITHMS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL;

EID: 0035989944     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1477230     Document Type: Article

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